Hilton Michael F, who is President & CEO at Nordson, sold 5,000 shares at $81.05 on June 3, 2015. Following this transaction, the President & CEO owned 30,611 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 14.04% with the 5,000-share transaction.

The shares most recently traded at $81.63, up $0.58, or 0.71% since the insider transaction. Historical insider transactions for Nordson go as follows:

4-Week # shares sold: 924

12-Week # shares sold: 924

24-Week # shares sold: 924

The average volume for Nordson has been 241,800 shares per day over the past 30 days. Nordson has a market cap of $5.0 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector and industrial industry. Shares are up 5.14% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.

Nordson Corporation engineers, manufactures, and markets products and systems for dispensing, applying, and controlling adhesives, coatings, polymers, sealants, biomaterials, and other fluids. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.08%. The company has a P/E ratio of 21.4. Currently, there are 3 analysts who rate Nordson a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.